Biography

Nathalie Duval-Couetil is the Director of the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, Associate Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. She is responsible for the launch and development of the university’s multidisciplinary undergraduate entrepreneurship program, which has involved over 5000 students from all majors since 2005. As part of the program, she has established entrepreneurship capstone, global entrepreneurship, and women and leadership courses and initiatives. Prior to her work in academia, Nathalie spent several years in the field of market research and business strategy consulting in Europe and the United States with Booz Allen and Hamilton and Data and Strategies Group. She received a BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an MBA from Babson College, and MS and PhD degrees from Purdue University. She currently serves on the board of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship in the role of Vice President for Research. She is also a Senior Research Advisor to the NSF-funded Stanford University Epicenter and serves as a mentor in the Epicenter Pathways Program.

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

Duval-Couetil, N. & Long, Z. (2014, November). Career Impacts of Entrepreneurship Education: How and When Students Intend to Utilize Entrepreneurship in their Professional Lives. Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship. http://tinyurl.com/pdr7fr4

Duval-Couetil, N. & Wheadon, M & (2014). Enhancing the employability of doctoral students through entrepreneurship education. Annals of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. http://tinyurl.com/nds84lp

Wheadon, M.† & Duval-Couetil, N. (2014, March). Exploring the Value of Entrepreneurship Education to Ph.D Students in the STEM Disciplines. National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Conference. San Jose, CA.

Wheadon, M.† & Duval-Couetil, N. (2014, January). Increasing the employability of doctoral students through entrepreneurship education. United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, Fort Worth, TX.

Dohrman, R., Buzzanel, P. & Duval-Couetil, N. (October, 2012). The Material Reality of the Contemporary Archetypal Entrepreneur: Connections between Feminism and Entrepreneurialism in the Role of Bodies at Work, Proceedings of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender Conference, Tacoma, WA.

Duval-Couetil, N. (2012, January). Characteristics and Attitudes of Students Participating in a Multidisciplinary Entrepreneurship Program. United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Duval-Couetil, N. & Wheadon, M & (2014). (in press). Enhancing the employability of doctoral students through entrepreneurship education. Annals of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Wheadon, M.† & Duval-Couetil, N. (2014, March). Exploring the Value of Entrepreneurship Education to Ph.D Students in the STEM Disciplines. National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Conference. San Jose, CA.

Wheadon, M.† & Duval-Couetil, N. (2014, January). Increasing the employability of doctoral students through entrepreneurship education. United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, Fort Worth, TX.

Dohrman, R., Buzzanel, P. & Duval-Couetil, N. (October, 2012). The Material Reality of the Contemporary Archetypal Entrepreneur: Connections between Feminism and Entrepreneurialism in the Role of Bodies at Work, Proceedings of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender Conference, Tacoma, WA.

Duval-Couetil, N. (2012, January). Characteristics and Attitudes of Students Participating in a Multidisciplinary Entrepreneurship Program. United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) Conference, New Orleans, LA.